Major gaming studio, responsible for World of Warcraft and the Warcraft franchise, Diablo III and the Diablo franchise, Hearthstone, Heroes of the Storm, and Overwatch.
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Massively OP Podcast Episode 148: Vampires, kobolds, and pirates
Justin and Bree discuss MOP's December awards, DDO, Secret World Legends, Path of Exile, Hearthstone, Sea of Thieves, RIFT, and Blade and Soul, with mailbag questions on returning to MMOs and love for Champs Online.
Leaderboard: Which MMO gameplay type encourages the worst player behavior?
One of the common tropes held by MMORPG players is that PvP, particularly free-for-all environments prone to ganks, generates the worst type of behavior....
SuperData says the e-sports industry grew to $1.5B this year alone
SuperData has a new report out this week that suggests e-sports haters will not be getting what they want for Christmas.
"The esports market has...
World of Warcraft’s Celestalon moves over to Hearthstone team
He's giving a sad goodbye to World of Warcraft but a happy hello to Hearthstone, as Game Designer Chadd "Celestalon" Nervig has switched teams over...
Overwatch’s Tracer spotted in Ready Player One trailer
The official trailer is now out for Steven Spielberg's Ready Player One, and Overwatch fans may be pleasantly surprised to see a blink-and-you'll-miss-it cameo...
The MOP Up: Heroes of the Storm mains Hanzo (December 10, 2017)
The MMO industry moves along at the speed of information, and sometimes we’re deluged with so much news here at Massively Overpowered that some...
One Shots: Boy band cover art
It's one thing to strike a pose and get a good-looking selfie in there, it's another to coordinate a whole group of twitchy gamers...
LOTRO Legendarium: Fixing Lord of the Rings Online’s grouping problem
One of the quirks -- and frustrations -- of MMORPGs is that there never seems to be one game that truly has it all....
WoW Factor: Reconsidering the next few months of World of Warcraft
There's a lot of information coming out about patch 7.3.5 at this point. Not everything, of course, and a lot of it is based...
Overwatch snags two Game Awards while Destiny 2 is honored by six nominations
Did you catch last night's Game Awards from LA? If not, you probably didn't miss anything super-groundbreaking, although Overwatch did quite well for itself...
Massively Overthinking: The best and worst MMO developer quotes of 2017
Think of all the wacky things devs have said in public in front of gamers and journalists this year.
Now imagine what gets said behind...
Overwatch teases new Winter Wonderland skins and Mei’s Yeti Hunt
Winter Wonderland is indeed returning to Overwatch next week on December 12th, and Game Director Jeff Kaplan is not doing anything to quell the...
Check out World of Warcraft’s allied races jokes and flirts, plus guilds topple Antorus bosses
Back in the day, the only way we'd learn about the many jokes and flirt lines for races in World of Warcraft was by...
Hearthstone: Kobolds and Catacombs is live today with free card packs
Today, Hearthstone players across the world will, indeed, take candle.
Blizzard's popular card game launched its newest expansion today, Kobolds and Catacombs. First revealed at...
Overwatch League begins as Philadelphia Fusion pulls out
It's a less-than-ideal way for Blizzard's long-awaited esports league to begin.
The Overwatch League preseason began this week, although not with all of the expected...
Perfect Ten: The healthiest live MMORPGs at the end of 2017
As Counting Crows told us, it's been a long December, although the fact that it has also only just started being December speaks to...
The Daily Grind: What feature from another game would you import into your favorite MMO?
One of the everlasting points of contention between me and the MMO industry is that no game gets everything right. Gah! Can't you mold...
Crowfall: ‘You don’t have to get into the stats to have a good time in this game’
Crowfall's J. Todd Coleman and Billy Garretsen are back for another ACE Q&A - you can pretty much mark the months by these things....
Massively OP Podcast Episode 147: Daybreak but not that one
Justin and Bree discuss Secret World Legends, Hearthstone, World of Warcraft, Star Citizen, Guild Wars 2, Skyforge, and the cost of making games, with a lengthy mailbag-inspired discussion on minimaps.
The Daily Grind: Have you ever fallen for an in-game MMO prank?
Stop me if you've heard this one: If you fly to the remote Hutton orbital space station in Elite Dangerous, there's a free Anaconda in...
